Severed hand grafted onto ankle
Xiao Wei lost his right hand in an accident at work and couldn’t have it reattached immediately due to crushing injuries to his arm which needed to be treated before reattachment. The Chinese are becoming ever better at microsurgery as you can see from one of my articles a while ago on another chinese gentleman who had a nose grafted into his forehead after antibiotic complications meant the tissue degraded and was forced to be debrided. Mr. Cairian Healy mentioned that in England, surgeons would have preferred to place the hand in the armpit due to better circulation and decreased difficulty. Surgeons often do this in the rare cases of recoverable amputation because the patient may not be fully fit for the procedure, a good surgeon can take from 8-15 hours to complete the surgery.
